ST ELESBAAN, KING AND CONFESSOR - 27th OCTOBER

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1. St Elesbaan was king of the Axumite, who were a powerful 6th century nation, during the reign of Justin the Elder. The mildness and prudence of his government was a sensible
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2. proof how great a blessing a people enjoy in a king who is free from inordinate passions and selfish views, to gratify which princes so often become tyrants.

This good king, however, was obliged to engage in a war. But his motives were justice and God's glory; and the
3. exaltation of both was the fruit of his victory.

Dunaan, a Jew who had usurped the sovereignty in Arabia Felix, persecuted the Christians.

The Emperor Justin the Elder engaged St Elesbaan to transport his forces into Arabia, and drive away the usurper Dunaan.
4. St Elesbaan, having by the divine blessing defeated the tyrant, made use of his victory with great clemency, rebuilt the church at Taphar; and, by laying the first stone, would be himself the first architect.

Nonnus, in his Legation testifies in 527, several years after
5. this war, that Elesbaan then resided at Axuma, a very great city, capital of Ethiopia.

At length, this good king, leaving his dominions to a son who was heir of his zeal and piety no less than of his kingdom, put on sackcloth, and retired secretly in the night out of the
6. palace and city to a holy monastery situated on a solitary mountain, where he took the monastic habit, and shut himself up in a cell for the remaining part of his life.

His food was only bread, with which he sometimes took a few dry herbs. He would not allow himself the
7. least distinction above the last among his brethren, and his whole employment consisted in the exercises of penance, the contemplation of heavenly things
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8. and conversing with God, by whom he was at length called, by a happy death, to reign eternally with Christ. His name occurs in the Roman Martyrology. (Excerpts from Fr Butler's "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints")
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26 Oct
26th OCTOBER: ST ALFRED THE GREAT

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1. St Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, was born around 849 - the fifth son of the king.

Having become king himself on 23 April 871, Danish invaders posed a severe threat #StAlfredTheGreat #Oct26 #UK #England #SaintOfTheDay
2. but he managed to establish Saxon supremacy.

Alfred improved the quality of life of his subjects: he issued laws, restored and founded monasteries, including Shaftesbury Abbey.

A patron of the arts, literature and other Church matters, he was loved in his #medievaltwitter
3. realm.

His wife, St Elswith, whom he married in 868, bore him five children, St Ethelgiva of Shaftesbury was one of them.

He translated Bede’s Ecclesiastical History into Anglo-Saxon, as well as the Pastoral Rule and Dialogues of Pope St Gregory the Great.
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24 Oct
THE SIX WELSH MARTYRS AND THEIR COMPANIONS - 25th OCTOBER

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1.Saint Richard Gwyn, a school master from Montgomeryshire, and Saints John Jones, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, David Lewis and John Roberts, all priests or religious, died for the Faith #WelshMartyrs #Oct25 #Wales
2. between the years 1584 and 1679. They are commemorated on October 25 in Wales, along with the hundreds of English men and women from all walks of life martyred during the protestant reformation, for their courage and constancy.

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3. PRAYER:

Almighty God,
who in our country raised up martyrs
from every walk of life
to vindicate the authority of your Church
in teaching and worship,
grant at their intercession, we pray,
that all our people may be gathered once again
to celebrate the same sacraments
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24 Oct
THE TEN POINT ‘SPIRITUAL FITNESS PROGRAMME’ FOR A ‘SPIRITUAL OVERHAUL’ TO GET AND KEEP YOUR LIFE BALANCED FROM NOW ON

Outlined briefly below is a balanced TEN POINT SPIRITUAL PROGRAMME for the family which each individual can use:

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1. SIGN OF THE CROSS:

The first act of each day should be the Sign of the Cross. It involves the body and soul and is an expression of our faith in a nutshell. The basic doctrines of three Persons in one Godhead and the Son becoming man and dying on the Cross for our salvation
1b) are all contained in this act of faith. After making the Sign of the Cross, it is well to add: "Behold I come to do Your will, O God."
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24 Oct
1. For the Christian penance is something very personal between him and God. He may no longer walk barefoot in the snow but still the practice of penance has to mean more than 10 Hail Marys between Confession and Coronation Street.
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2. [E]nhance prayer through penance,..offer some token of shame and sorrow, to meditate on sinfulness, to reflect on Infinite Goodness, to bear witness through penance which rarely fails to provoke curiosity or conversely to keep the penance so secret that God alone sees.
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3. COLLECTIVE PENANCE: SACKCLOTH AND ASHES

Nor is penance confined only to our own sins but rather can also be a recognition of the sinfulness of the world we live in. In ‘Sackcloth and Ashes’ I refer to the example of some German nuns who after the Second World War
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23 Oct
ST ANTHONY MARY CLARET, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 24th OCTOBER

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1. Anthony Mary Claret was born at Vich in Spain, of devout parents. He started life as a weaver, but afterwards became a priest. He was sent from Rome on the foreign missions
#StAnthonyMaryClaret #Oct24
2. by the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.

By the will of God, however, he returned to Spain and as a Missionary Apostolic travelled through Catalonia and the Canary Islands.

Besides being a prolific writer of fine books, he also founded the Congregation of the
3. Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Appointed Archbishop of the See of Santiago in Cuba, he restored the seminary,
improved the discipline of the clergy,
established social works and founded the Teaching Sisters of Mary Immaculate for the Christian education for girls.
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22 Oct
ST JOHN PAUL II - 22nd OCTOBER

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1. Karol Wojtyla’s was born near Krakow, in 1920, the youngest of three children of Karol and Emilia Wojtyla. A doctor reportedly advised Emilia to have an abortion, insisting that she would not give birth to a live child. #StJohnPaulII
2. But, of course, she refused.

Emilia died when Karol was just eight and, along with the premature deaths of his sister and brother, this would deeply affect him. His father died in 1941. And so, he later reflected, by 20 he had lost his entire close family.

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3. When #WWII broke out Karol worked as a manual labourer in a limestone quarry, among other jobs. He also saved the lives of a number of Jewish people from the Nazis.

After the war Karol was among the first to enter the ruins of the seminary in order to rebuild it.
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